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We are constantly inundated with vast amounts of information, like river floods, like torrents. It is not easy to escape completely from this flow, and we often find ourselves unconsciously swept up in waves of information in our daily lives.

Social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok have become communication tools that permeate our lives. However, we believe that taking some distance from the excessive information environments and preemptive algorithms generated by such social media could serve as an opportunity to reconsider our life rhythms and relationships with others.

『DODO MEGURI』is a local guide born from this perspective. It aims to reconstruct our relationship with local communities through analog encounters and journeys based on bodily sensations.

The name『DODO MEGURI』draws inspiration from the Japanese phrase “dōdō meguri” (going around in circles). While this phrase means “going around the same place (or idea) repeatedly,” this guide reexamines the meaning inherent in “circling the same place” as a natural way of continuously engaging with people and places.

The relationships with people that emerge through repetition, and the unique atmosphere (sense of place) that locations possess—these gradually create a “hollow” with intensity, like a great vortex. We are developing our concept based on this image.

What this guide aims for is the flat, monotonous time that repeats in daily life. Rather than strong emotions like excitement or despair, there exists the continuity of quietly flowing everyday life and the tangible quality of human relationships.

“By shifting what exists there, we can perceive the landscape as an even more vivid world, making it visible. It lies in making what is as it is into what it truly is.” ── From Lee Ufan’s “Art of Margins”

『DODO MEGURI』is a local guide for taking a fresh look at landscapes and activities that already exist by slightly shifting our perspective.

2025.08